Frederick Douglass: “The idea that righteousness exalteth a nation, and that sin is a reproach to any people, was, for a time, lost sight of.”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.